{"id":74996,"date":"2025-11-01T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/01\/xi-jinpings-moment-and-whirlwind-diplomatic-tours-key-takeaways-from-the-apec-summit-in-south-korea"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:14:35","slug":"xi-jinpings-moment-and-whirlwind-diplomatic-tours-key-takeaways-from-the-apec-summit-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74996","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping\u2019s moment and whirlwind diplomatic tours: key takeaways from the Apec summit in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Trump electing to fly back to Washington on the eve of the main summit, what did Apec\u2019s remaining leaders achieve in his absence?<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of countries across the Asia-Pacific are wrapping up their summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, after a week dominated by trade talks between the US president, Donald Trump, and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump electing to fly back to Washington on the eve of the main summit, what did Apec\u2019s remaining leaders \u2013 who together represent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/30\/apec-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-explained\">40% of the world\u2019s population and about 50% of its trade<\/a> \u2013 achieve in his absence?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/01\/xi-jinpings-moment-and-whirlwind-diplomatic-tours-key-takeaways-from-the-apec-summit-in-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Trump electing to fly back to Washington on the eve of the main summit, what did Apec\u2019s remaining leaders achieve in his absence?The leaders of countries across the Asia-Pacific are wrapping up their summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, after a week d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,41,244,50,88,222,3280,554,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apec-summit","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-tariffs","category-trump-administration","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74996\/revisions\/74997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}